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PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm
PhotoSketch, a new image manipulation program that combines stick-figure sketches, internet image search and pattern matching, seems to be spreading like wildfire. Created by five Chinese students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore, the tool takes a basic sketch and simple labels and turns it into a polished image. "Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images," say the PhotoSketch team in an abstract outlining the tool. "We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition. Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful."
This image looks sketched. I can tell from a few of the pixels, and from having seen a few sketches in my time.
If you sketch a big circle and two hands, will it come up with goatse?
The authors of the program--Tao Chen, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ping Tan, Ariel Shamir, and Shi-Min Hu at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, and the National University of Singapore--presented it at Siggraph Asia 2009.
An event that will be remembered forever in the History of Humanity as the day in which a million dorks were finally able to put themselves in X-rated positions with Megan Fox.
Did you ever wake up in the morning, with a Zombie Woof behind your eyes? -- FZ
Now NO ONE will believe the pics of me with Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale and Dolly Madison are real!
Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur...
"Force shits upon Reason's back." - Poor Richard's Almanac
This will make things way easier for Iran and North Korea.
Tubgirl and goatse.cs are gonna crash.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
I hope they can work out the kinks.
Oh, don't be so boring . . . let them leave the kink in!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Anybody else see what's wrong with this picture?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
A Scanner Darkly
I suppose it won't work if you try sketching the Dalai Lama?
I've heard of academic projects on filtering out porn (Australian military didn't want people surfing smut on the clock). I'd imagine that filtering out pics of the Dalai Lama would be harder...
That might be fine if youre doing a remake of a ..ah damn what the name of that film again...my memory is shit.
Star Wars: A New Hope?
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
A single XKCD comic? Apply to all XKCD comics, then turn all the comics into a streaming video. See if you obtain a higher level of conciousness.
Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
You mean except for the binary on the website (linked to in another comment)?
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Downloaded the binaries, extracted the executables to my WinXP VM instance, and got the error, "The system cannot execute the specified program". Got .NET installed, so it must be looking for some C++ dependencies. Not pretty...
Aren't mashups already in a gray area?
The problem is that you're letting your potatoes get exposed to air for too long before mashing them. Submerge them in iced water prior to mashing, and add some sour cream to the mash, then your mashup will have a creamy texture and clean white color.
... and then they built the supercollider.